The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.