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.

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.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.

There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.