Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.