And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

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

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Fight with a happy heart.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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