We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Money ain’t everything.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

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

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.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

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.

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

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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.

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

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

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

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

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

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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.