I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

The pursuit of happiness which American citizens are obliged to undertake tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods tastes and aptitudes of youth.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

The founders of a new colony whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as the site of a prison.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.