“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for perspective, for being at peace with ourselves.”

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”

“The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”