The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Peace begins with a smile.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I eat next to nothing.