“I have pursued the comfort of things, when all along Comfort is a Person.”

“When you say you are in pursuit of happiness, what you essentially mean is that you are expecting your environment to always act in ways that would elicit an emotion of happiness in your heart. It is exactly as absurd as it sounds.”

“Happiness is merely a consolation for not yet being dead.”

“I’m not in pursuit of happiness, I’m happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.”

“Happiness is the most tired word in any language.”

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”