The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

To show a child what once delighted you to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering that there is a sort of psychic economy whereby if you embrace success happiness and comfort these things have to be paid for.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could I would buy myself four hits every game.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

So my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

It is work work that one delights in that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I've gotten to a point where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

You know I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

When we were together I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.