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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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

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

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

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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