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.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

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

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Smiles are the language of love.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

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

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Fun is good.

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.