John Barrymore - Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Benjamin Franklin - The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Denis Waitley - Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
John Keegan - I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
Ruby Wax - College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Ben Bernanke - High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
James Baldwin - “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - The history of men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Ashley Montagu - The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Gustave Flaubert - To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Mahatma Gandhi - Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Laurie Anderson - At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg - I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
Germaine Greer - Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Oscar Levant - Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Lydia M. Child - An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Oscar Wilde - Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Alex Guarnaschelli - I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
Ed O'Neill - In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls
Sandra Tsing Loh - Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
Hazel Scott - Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Clare Boothe Luce - Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Charles Spurgeon - It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Leigh Steinberg - It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Simon Newcomb - In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Andy Behrman - After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.
Marquis de Lafayette - Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Thomas Merton - Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Robert Anthony - Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Peter Gallagher - I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Parker Stevenson - I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to
Akshay Kumar - It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
Peter Marshall - May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
Henry Ward Beecher - The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Epictetus - There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Pat Buchanan - Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
David Eddings - I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Angela Bassett - When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
Renee Olstead - If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America is another name for opportunity.
Hosea Ballou - Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Sophocles - Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Raheem DeVaughn - I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.
Carol P. Christ - I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
Fiona Apple - I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Tim Duncan - I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
George Washington - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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