Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness the good he seeks.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object and pursue it for life.