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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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

Due process should matter.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

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

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

I love being in a courtroom.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.