How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I am happy and I’m single.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

What we live by we die by.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.