Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Gautama Buddha

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Stephen King

You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are the earth, but not the earth.

Allen R. Hunt

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Tucker Carlson

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Tim Robbins

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Laura Linney

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

Jane Austen