You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

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

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.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Peace begins with a smile.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.