The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

Some days are just bad days, that is all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that is just the way it is!

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it is not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can not help it - can not help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you are great.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

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 is where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.