"So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness."

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

"Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it."

"I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending."

"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one"

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

"The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are."

"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is."

"To know nothing is the happiest life."

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

"Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh."

"Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?"

"The scalpel won't make you happy."

"You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy."

"Gratitude is the key to happiness."

"Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want and to do what makes you happy."

"Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel."

"Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think."