Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

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

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.