I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Fun I love but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.