Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

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.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

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

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

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

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

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

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

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

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

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.

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

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

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

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