“The two pinnacles I had that I've reached were to catch a fish on my own pattern and to be published in a book. I'm happy I've done that.”

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character. 

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.

We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare,And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there.

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

A man can’t talk of true happiness if he has never known true love—the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.