I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there is a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it is an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

There is a higher form of happiness in commitment. I am counting on it.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you are after truth, happiness always comes.

You know, American citizens, I do not 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.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

Fashion is all about happiness. It is fun. It is important. But it is not medicine.

I have had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.