Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

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

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Life must be lived as play.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I can do whatever I want.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Fight with a happy heart.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

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

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.