It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.