You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

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.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.

Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

I can make the stars dance

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.