I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life but a way of wasting some force an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy healthy and prosperous being and happiness health and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

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

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Until you're ready to look foolish you'll never have the possibility of being great.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

No human being however great or powerful was ever so free as a fish.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

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

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Working hard is great being lazy sometimes is great but failed potential is the worst.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.