Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas C. Haliburton

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

James S. Coleman

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Aeschylus

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Denis Waitley

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

Conor Oberst

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Samuel Johnson

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Salman Rushdie

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.

William Brewster

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

Daryl Hannah

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

Christa Wolf