Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

I love being on stage. I'm completely totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

And in fact you can find that the lack of basic resources material resources contributes to unhappiness but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Happiness is only real when shared.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The last part the part you're now approaching was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness Population: Them.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness is giving.

In civilized life where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life throughout its whole infinite range they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin finds no love no life no laughter no hope and no happiness.

From the Taoist point of view the natural result of this harmonious way of living is 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.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation as a nation and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness private or public.

The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like we all want the same thing for our families - happiness health prosperity a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness fewer marriages would end in tears.