The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love but the most unlovable.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them but that they seize us.

Children are the most learning hungry beings in the world.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.