Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.