Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.

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.

People who judge you are often themselves craving approval.

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

Most parents don't know really their children.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.