As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.