I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness I guess comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

As long as you are being true to yourself you will always find happiness.

An order of government established by such an all-wise powerful being must be good and perfect and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace happiness and well-being of all his subjects.

First and foremost you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth happiness always comes.

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.

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.

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

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.

The women I know who have children and have careers they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are what you love.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge 'tis born with us and is inseparable from our Being but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Joe E. Lewis said 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia and we didn't have any money we just survived on happiness on being a happy family.

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

I enjoy being happy every day and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit it's right here.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.