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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.