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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.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... And it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing -- and does it well.

Life has got to be lived -- that's all that there is to it.

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his [or her] happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don't enjoy that trip, it's pretty pathetic.

Happy is she who conducts herself honorably.

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

True happiness consists in making others happy.