How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

It was physically difficult adjusting to wheelchair life but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful difficult but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering that there is a sort of psychic economy whereby if you embrace success happiness and comfort these things have to be paid for.

I've gotten to a point where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

We all have a hungry heart and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading walking around the woods in Ohio where I grew up.

When I was waiting tables washing dishes or mowing lawns for money I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path my own journey an American journey where I could think for myself decide for myself define happiness for myself.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well that's me.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

You can be happy where you are.

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Don't get involved in partial problems but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem even if this view is still not a clear one.

The philosopher has never killed any priests whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

It's a great country where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.