Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

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.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.