I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

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

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

My reputation precedes me now.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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

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

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

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

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

I think that success is having fun.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I am happy and I’m single.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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.‘

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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

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

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.