Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.