The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Every gift which is given even though is be small is in reality great if it is given with affection.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest ' and so forth I switch off quite early.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat obedient loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.