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

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

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.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

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 isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.