Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.