What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

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.

Every sin can be forgiven by the heavenly Father.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

Beats is inherently different: the company is a consumer electronics company but also a media company; a packaged goods company but also an entertainment company.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.