I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
People say that money is not the key to happiness but I always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity to put it simply.
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest ' and so forth I switch off quite early.
I speak directly to the people and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican young or old.