Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.