Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

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.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

He has the gift of quiet.

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that's the hardest.