And feel that I am happier than I know.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

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

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

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.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

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