When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.

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.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.