The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If my films make one more person miserable I'll feel I have done my job.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.