“...you are responsible for the happiness you get. You have the right to be happy. but you do not have the right to ask happiness from others. Happiness, like beauty, comes from within.”

“Willadee asked him if he thought maybe it should say HAPPY EVER AFTER, but Samuel said no, he thought happiness was like any other miracle. The more you talked about it, the less people believed it was real. It was like Swan said, some things, everybody just had to find out about for themselves.”

“No " Grandlibby replied. "Hail comes from hell. The devil sent it because he's happy that you're reading evil garbage.”

“You can't really live to make other happy. You also simply can't correct all the misperceptions about you or your spouse or your intentions on any given event or statement. (p.116)”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!”

“You're special.I'm special.The whole world's special, so don't you forget it.The universe wants usAll to be happy,Full of smiles and all that stuff,All that stuffThat's happy and smiley.So get happy, happy, happy right now!Get happy, happy, happy right now!Get happy, happy, happy right now!”