There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep left there to dream of their happiness.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

When you're passionate about something you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

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.

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.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers all making believe as hard as they can.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash but then the country picked itself up again and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.