Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
I still believe in a place called Hope.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
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.
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.
