Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Money can’t buy life.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Fight with a happy heart.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Every loss of life is terrible.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

You can be happy where you are.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.