Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is all.

Rebecca West

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

Daisaku Ikeda

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

James Taylor

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Neal A. Maxwell

Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

John Wesley

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Eric Hoffer

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

Johnson

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Adlai E. Stevenson II