I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Happiness is only real when shared.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.