First and foremost you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth happiness always comes.

Sadness is a very interesting idea this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness and the idea that sadness is very loud and happiness is quiet.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage be a happy father.

The women I know who have children and have careers they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are what you love.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge 'tis born with us and is inseparable from our Being but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

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.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia and we didn't have any money we just survived on happiness on being a happy family.