I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn and can't keep and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears happiness or sadness.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Happiness exists on earth and it is won through prudent exercise of reason knowledge of the harmony of the universe and constant practice of generosity.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

And that is the reason why this victory is great because different players have made contributions to the win.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.