Jack Dawson · Leonardo DiCaprio's artist in Titanic (1997) · Jack whooping to his friend Fabrizio from the bow of the ship as it leaves port; James Cameron repeated the line on stage when he won the Best Director Oscar in 1998.
Albert Schweitzer · From his philosophy of civilization, written in Africa during the First World War; his answer to anyone who thinks happiness is for keeping.
Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi · Shared everywhere under Gandhi's name, but no speech or writing of his with these words has been found.
Often credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne never wrote it, and neither did Thoreau, who also gets the credit; the earliest version is an anonymous 1848 newspaper piece in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, signed only "L."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln · No record exists of Lincoln saying it; the line first appeared in a Syracuse newspaper column by Dr. Frank Crane on January 1, 1914, nearly fifty years after Lincoln's death.
George Sand · From a letter to Lina Calamatta, her future daughter-in-law, on March 31, 1862.
Aristotle · The conclusion of his argument in the Nicomachean Ethics that happiness is the one thing we want for its own sake. The popular line "Happiness depends upon ourselves" is a paraphrase of the same book, not his words.
Charles M. Schulz · The title of his 1962 Peanuts gift book, which spent 45 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
Mark Twain · A note in his private notebook in November 1896, the year his daughter Susy died; the popular version adds a second "up".
Marcus Aurelius · Written in Greek in his private notebook while on campaign; the Long translation of 1862 is the wording everyone knows.
Helen Keller · A journal entry of December 10, 1936, written while she was mourning her teacher Anne Sullivan.
Eleanor Roosevelt · From the chapter "Learning to Be Useful" in her last book, written at 76.
Theodore Roosevelt · From his Labor Day "Square Deal" speech at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, 7 September 1903.
Marcel Proust · Standard English translation of a line from his first book.
Victor Hugo · The narrator of Les Misérables, in the chapter where Fantine's story turns dark; the Hapgood translation of 1887 is the wording in English.
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