By asking the question 'Am I happy? ' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness there is a political route that can be taken by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness and should it try?'

Money is not necessarily although it helps a lot for happiness it's not necessarily the best way to be happy to be rich you know.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

The women I know who have children and have careers they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are what you love.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy the poor most of all and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

When Kate was born she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy she's thriving she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

The slave may be happy but happiness is not enough.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge 'tis born with us and is inseparable from our Being but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.