Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

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.

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

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.

Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

I feel like I am always searching for my purpose. I'm always wondering what that is.