It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.