The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.
Acting is happy agony.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
The nearer the church, the further from God.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.
A book is the only immortality.
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
War would end if the dead could return.