The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness but enables us to move back from it a little.