Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.