Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

A kind word is like a spring day.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.