In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

I've never seen an obese person who has said 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Before the boat docked however he confessed because he was contemplating running for president he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

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

You know American citizens I don't think ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans gay Americans that happens to be true.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.