The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don’t have to worry for anyone!

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

To believe lies is to be beguiled

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.