Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Young people can create beautiful things.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Genius, when young, is divine.