If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

—Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

—Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

—Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

—Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

—Bertrand Russell

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

—Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

—Ayn Rand

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

—Ann Radcliffe

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

—Alfred Lord Tennyson