A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

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

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.