Before the boat docked however he confessed because he was contemplating running for president he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

You know American citizens I don't think ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans gay Americans that happens to be true.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

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.

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

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person energetic and things like that I never do very well on happiness tests.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Every poll about the Left the Right and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes the less happy the person is likely to be.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.