I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?