If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

"In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."

"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."