What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

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.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.