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.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

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.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

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.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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

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

I always wanted a family.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

I like to give back.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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

Where thou art, that is home.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.