But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy a….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the pr….

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy s….

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medic….

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature..

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Read at whim! Read at whim!.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or posse….

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy..

Discontent is the first necessity of progress..