“If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions