My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

I am actually tougher on myself as I get older. It is a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can not buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Getting pregnant was not easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I do always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you are a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it is gone.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

It is not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys do not like it. Girls do not like you as much. You lose some happiness when that is all you think about.

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

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he Does not promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.