"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy"

"Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours"

"No man is happy who does not think himself so"

"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"