Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

She was someone's dream, who just chose to show up in someone else's sleep.

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.