A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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.

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.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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.

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

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

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

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