"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

"We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us."

"He and I are happy today that the worst of the crisis is over."

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

"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length"

Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset, or vice-versa.

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.