Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Do not wish me happiness - I do not expect to be happy it is gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.