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

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

I decided to be happy, it is excellent for one's health.

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.

Happiness and beauty are by-products.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Use, do not abuse; the wise man arrange things so. I flee Epictetus and Petronius alike. Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.