When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is on the whole an informal activity a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

The thing is when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage and because I went on to have a very very unhappy two years I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

I've never seen an obese person who has said 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Before the boat docked however he confessed because he was contemplating running for president he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

You know American citizens I don't think ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans gay Americans that happens to be true.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

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

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

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Every poll about the Left the Right and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes the less happy the person is likely to be.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.