There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

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

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?