See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.

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.

It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

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.

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.

Conventionality is not morality.

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Have I done what is really important today?

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Sink twice before you strike out for land.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.