"My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first"

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

The man who is guided by concepts and abstractions only succeeds by such means in warding off misfortune, without ever gaining any happiness for himself from these abstractions. And while he aims for the greatest possible freedom from pain, the intuitive man, standing in the midst of a culture, already reaps from his intuition a harvest of continually inflowing illumination, cheer, and redemption — in addition to obtaining a defense against misfortune.

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.