Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.