Content thyself to be obscurely good.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

I generally deal with something happening.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

First, Donald Trump took out like this little make up compact like right here, because he had a sweat mustache.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.