Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.