It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.