"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."

"Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free."

"Happy is the house that shelters a friend!"

"[on the possibility of contact with an alien civilization] I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low."

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

"One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

"When you see a person without a smile, give them yours."

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."