Everything hangs on ones thinking... A man is unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

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.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

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

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

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

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.