William Ewart Gladstone

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

Let’s make ourselves happy

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.