Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves....Helen Keller:

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. .....George Sands

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

“Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.”

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”

"Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues."

"War is the great scavenger of thought."

"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."

"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."

"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means."

"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

"I dream, therefore I exist."

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."

"While the doctors consult, the patient dies."

"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

"The shortest answer is doing."

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

"The mob has many heads but no brains."

"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass."

"He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned."

"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."

"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

"Translators, traitors."

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

"The nail that sticks up will be hammered down."

"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same."

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

"Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best."

"There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave."

"When the apple is ripe it will fall."

"Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain."

"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it."

"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."

"If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong."

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

'If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing in the store is free yet?'

'Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.'

'If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?'

'There can not be a crisis today, my schedule is already full.'

'Sorry - yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.'

'I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad I take something for it.'

'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to use the Net and he will not bother you for weeks.'

'I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.'

'It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think your stupid, than to open it and let them know it is true.'

'Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.'

'Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. '

'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.'

'The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.'