I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

We are all gifted but we have to discover the gift uncover the gift nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

The first step toward finding God Who is Truth is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not discovers to me his existence.

Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities to stop being an actress to do something else... for me the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

The future author is one who discovers that language the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language will serve him in winning through to his way.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.