Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.