"True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents." ― John W. Gardner Topic(s): Happiness More From John W. Gardner "History never looks like history when you are living through it." "When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale." "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government." More In Happiness "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."― Arthur Schopenhauer "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."― Robert Frost "Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk."― Maurice Sendak