Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness I think only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11 unfortunately it's gone.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.

When I was waiting tables washing dishes or mowing lawns for money I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path my own journey an American journey where I could think for myself decide for myself define happiness for myself.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.