Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

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.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Where thou art, that is home.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

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.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I only want my work to make people happy.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I always wanted a family.

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.

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.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Men want to make women happy.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I’ve laid my friends bare.