To the Founders, Rosen argues, the pursuit of happiness “was a quest for self-improvement and moral perfection,” a quest not ...

The youth of the American republic is one of its oldest traditions. Its unique origins will always make it younger than any other nation. Yet the United States is also the world’s oldest democracy.

America loves to talk about happiness. The word is everywhere, as is the search for its meaning. Gurus take to stages across the country to pronounce on the precepts of happiness. Bookstores have ...

FARGO - Chris Gardner, whose autobiography was turned into the hit motion picture “The Pursuit of Happyness,” starring Will Smith, will be the featured speaker for this year’s Voices Of Vision event, ...

Did you know that for all our talk about the ‘pursuit of happiness,’ we actually take a very dim view of people who seek it?

It is safe to say that the pursuit of happiness—a phrase penned by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence—has served as a primary ambition for many Americans throughout the nation’s ...

Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith star as Navy veteran Christopher Gardner and his son Christopher Gardner, Jr. in the 2006 film adaptation of Gardner's book, "The Pursuit of Happyness." (Columbia ...

He works in mysterious ways.

It is the tenant the United States was founded on: we all have the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Sometimes those feel farther away than they should, but there's a ...

"Nothing is enough to the [person] for whom enough is too little." ~ Epicurus Sadly, in our capitalistic culture today, the two aspirations denoted in the above title--to me, sharply contrasting--are ...