Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.