Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.