No man is happy who does not think himself so.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

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

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

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

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

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.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

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

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.