All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

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

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

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