My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.