"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."   Mark Twain

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"   G K Chesterton

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."   Aristotle

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."   Epictetus

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."   Benjamin Franklin

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."   Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."   Thomas Wolfe

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."   George Santayana

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."   Irish Proverb

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."   Winston Churchill