In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

The soul is healed by being with children.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

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.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

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

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

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.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.