A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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.

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.

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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