Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.