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.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

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.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

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