Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Every man is his own hell.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Money can’t buy life.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

States are not moral agents.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.