It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.

Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.

Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.

The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.

No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within

The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.

Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat.

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.