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.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

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

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.