You are the answer to your happiness.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

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

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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

Sorrow prepares you for joy.