The lesson I have thoroughly learnt and wish to pass on to others is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

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.

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

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

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.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

But O how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness exists on earth and it is won through prudent exercise of reason knowledge of the harmony of the universe and constant practice of generosity.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

When a great team loses through complacency it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times is the most important characteristic of a great leader.