Well my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me as well as being a real place it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache and Australia has that as well.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Love is the most terrible and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died I felt like I had lost a limb.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor dignity and courage.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it she knows the meaning of true generosity happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony with a courage and grace.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas to take the calculated risk and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

You always hear the phrase money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life but the problem is I chose a business saturated in judgment.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest but the happiest are usually the best.