I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

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.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

I always try to make sure that the workspace that I'm in - the NBA, there's highs and lows - but I always make sure that I never let the highs and lows truly determine my true happiness as a person.

When you have a child, the happiness that it will give you cannot be matched by any number of zeroes on a cheque.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

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.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.