“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

“You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.”

“I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.”

“Drugs provide pleasure; they cannot provide happiness. For happiness, you need people.”

“I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.”

“When I was your age… I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.”

“Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s happiness could hurt many others.”

“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”

“Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.”

“Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.”