The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

I just see too many people retire and say 'I'm going to take off travel spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active and like what they are doing live longer.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

When I was growing up particularly during puberty in my teen years I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple it's just gone like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.