We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in the tooth for it.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

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.