It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful but to be forever elevating one's uses.

90% 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

If you asked somebody 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement knowledge ' God knows - I mean many many different things but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness but there is the discovery of joy.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

First and foremost you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth happiness always comes.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Eventually we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace contentment happiness strength fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

It's obvious but perhaps worth saying that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

To me the most important thing is happiness.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

For me however that beloved glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy even in bad circumstances.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

You need characters who want things. They want love they want recognition they want happiness.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.