The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Happiness is a direction not a place.

I speak directly to the people and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican young or old.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.