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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

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

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

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

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Man is a universe within himself.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Evil is whatever distracts.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

To live is to think.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.