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 have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them but that they seize us.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist because he prefers a great moment to everything.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard fast and specific decision.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having but it would not be a good song in my eyes until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song it's just complaining.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection it feels good when you get one but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment childhood memories and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father a good teammate a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed or are you not?

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.