Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Students should be told, how to think, not what to think.

She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample.