Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Nevertheless whether in occurrences lasting days hours or mere minutes at a time I have experienced happiness often and have had brief encounters with it in my later years even in old age.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

While I gave up God a long time ago I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I love acting. It's my playground it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit never completely forget about it.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person energetic and things like that I never do very well on happiness tests.