If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.

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

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.

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

Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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 tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.