It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.