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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

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

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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