The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that so really I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter he can only be a builder.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.