Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

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

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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

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.