The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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.

I love women with attitude.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

We were poor, but we smiled.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.