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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Everybody lives for something better to come.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

Better be happy than wise.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable.

Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life upon a broad foundation -- which means not to require a great many things in order to be happy. Happiness on such a foundation is the most easily undermined. It offers many more opportunities for accidents; and accidents are always happening.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts -- once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness -- simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.