It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him no error without evil.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

I've done an informal anecdotal survey about marriage and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

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.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The founders of a new colony whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as the site of a prison.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Work and live to serve others to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored and life is only too short and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.