Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Money cannot buy happiness.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation as a nation and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness private or public.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever it must go out and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

A weak mind is like a microscope which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

If you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.