The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.

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.

if a make up, is a fake face, than why dress to impress?

According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

I'm not recognised much at all.

Be who you are in every situation.

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.