There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Social change comes through people.
Cats don't like change without their consent.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
