Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.