To show a child what once delighted you to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

It is work work that one delights in that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out I think to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder and its end is despair.