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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

I think I am basically a happy person.

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

I'm a happy person. Sometimes, I have to make a conscious effort to stay happy. See, my predispositions are - as opposed to what you see - I'm actually quite a sensitive person, very empathetic, very emotional... Very impulsive.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.