No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

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

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

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

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.

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

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