Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

We were together. I forget the rest.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.