The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers all making believe as hard as they can.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father to be a good husband to be a good lover you know to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them that's the mark of a great player.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.