Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.