"You've got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness"

"My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him."

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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."

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."