Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.