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

“If the aim of economics is really to provide the greatest happiness to the most people, than it is rather shocking to discover that economic growth has no net effect on happiness. So what has gone wrong with the neoclassical prospect?”

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

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

“It is essential that the government provide educational services that respond to the people’s needs”

“Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.”

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

“My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with happiness, with a contented existence, with harmony. My own goal is to establish or re-establish harmony between people and their environment.”

“The pleasures of self-approbation, together with the right cultivation of all our pleasures, require individual independence. Without independence men cannot become either wise, or useful, or happy.”