No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
The right to happiness is fundamental.
Money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
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.
Doing is the great thing for if people resolutely do what is right they come in time to like doing it.
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone I want something that turns me on inside.
Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in the shady place.
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.