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

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.