Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do you don't for a long time.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

You know American citizens I don't think ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans gay Americans that happens to be true.

Money is not necessarily although it helps a lot for happiness it's not necessarily the best way to be happy to be rich you know.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

When I was a little kid all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person energetic and things like that I never do very well on happiness tests.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it but is in it.

When I was waiting tables washing dishes or mowing lawns for money I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path my own journey an American journey where I could think for myself decide for myself define happiness for myself.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat is what makes a really good restaurant.

To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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.