Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Of course to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The office of government is not to confer happiness but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

We believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.

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.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Happiness? A good cigar a good meal a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

All you need for happiness is a good gun a good horse and a good wife.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.