The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Happiness is an inside job.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
I have a very vivid imagination.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
It's my life and my death.
Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
A useless life is an early death.
An unused life is an early death.
We will persevere, come life or death.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.