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

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

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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

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