As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Men want to make women happy.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

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

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.