Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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.
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.
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.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
