Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community living together in community life which may be missing here in America.

Sadness is a very interesting idea this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness and the idea that sadness is very loud and happiness is quiet.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be I think an American cow.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness because who I am today I am completely content to be.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness I think only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11 unfortunately it's gone.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

I don't like Paris so much and it's only eight shows. I mean don't tell them that of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me my happiness is more important.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling but I'll settle for second best.

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I don't have the recipe for happiness but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way you either let it slide or you cook with it.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over on this day his ideal will die.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

You know I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.