Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

We were together. I forget the rest.

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

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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.

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.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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.

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

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

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.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.