You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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.

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

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

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

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 depends upon ourselves.

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.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal