I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it there should be development of art and culture literature and education science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh yes it should.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community living together in community life which may be missing here in America.

By asking the question 'Am I happy? ' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness there is a political route that can be taken by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness and should it try?'

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water using the word lightly but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it but should take up the challenge.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

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.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

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.

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.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father to be a good husband to be a good lover you know to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.