All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.

Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.

Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without.

It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

care for your body as you care for your home, and care for your home as you care for your body.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I always write the script by myself.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.