They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10000 men to guard the past.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged we cannot be discouraged.

When we lose someoe we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.