Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

Many a happiness in life as many a disaster can be due to chance but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

It's obvious but perhaps worth saying that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

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.

The music is the message the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

To me the most important thing is happiness.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve but having a handsome husband a beautiful baby and a great job helps.

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Sadness is a very interesting idea this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness and the idea that sadness is very loud and happiness is quiet.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point it just brings more money.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness enough success.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage be a happy father.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.