There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness so is absolute bliss.

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

What I mean by that is that the point of life as I see it is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans but to achieve happiness and preferably an unselfish happiness.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator most probably from a life to misery and misfortune and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

Joe E. Lewis said 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually just as we monitor money and GDP.

When I was a little kid all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

I don't have the recipe for happiness but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran no matter how benign their intentions present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person energetic and things like that I never do very well on happiness tests.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Genuine happiness comes from within and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

I'm passionate about everything like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

It was physically difficult adjusting to wheelchair life but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.