“It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.”

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.