"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."

"I am very happy. I know I gave more than 100% in the race, and we had a lot of problems this weekend,"

"To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today."

"I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland."

"I'm so happy with what has happened in my life."

"I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin."

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."

"Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude"

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours"

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

"My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family."

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

"The truth is, I like my body more when it's thinner. I have a range of jeans, and I'm happier in the smaller ones. But I don't have the same drive to get into those jeans. I'm not going to change my day to get there, whereas I used to."