I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

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.

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.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

My life is my message.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

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.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

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.

Smiles are the language of love.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.