Happiness was not made to be boasted but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Money if it does not bring you happiness will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

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

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

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.

Famous adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

In my family in the days prior to television we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make and vice versa.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and thinking they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me who came from nowhere.

The miser starving his brother's body starves also his own soul and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice poor and naked and miserable.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

For the last few years it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd you can't be happy.