Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Living a fake life is definitely a fulltime job of its own. Why place some unnecessary burdens on your shoulders, when you can actually live freely by being true to yourself?

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."

If I like the music then at least some others will too, and that is all that matters in this context.

... my mind lay limp in an empty world.