Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I do not want people to be very agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Growing up if I hadn't had sports I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.