You've got to ask! Asking is in my opinion the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Power after love is the first source of happiness.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Let us develop the resources of our land call forth its powers build up its institutions promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

No human being however great or powerful was ever so free as a fish.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.