I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.