We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

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.

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.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

We haven't the time to take out time.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.