Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.