If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Unless we practice conservation those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery degradation and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make and vice versa.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and thinking they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.