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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor 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.

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.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Money ain’t everything.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

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

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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

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

Men want to make women happy.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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

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

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

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

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.