No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

At times in my life, the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

By all means, marry. if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.