If it were now to die, ’twere now to be most happy.

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

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

While there's life, there's hope.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.