“Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!”

“The happiest man is the one who knows how to obtain the greatest sum of happiness without ever failing in the discharge of his duties, and the most unhappy is the man who has adopted a profession in which he finds himself constantly under the sad necessity of foreseeing the future.”

“The pygmies are one of the most cultured peoples on the face of the earth. They live a wonderful life, a life of purity. Not only are they busy and productive, they're happy and healthy as well. If we puny Americans had to live under their conditions, we'd perish in a day. Modern man has much to learn from the people he calls 'savages'. Before we are down to the last blade of grass it would be wise to study the life of the Pygmies. The secret of our own survival rests with them, the people who know how to make the most out of very little and find complete happiness with the bare essentials.”

“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”

“Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.”

“If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it. "Stand for something, or you will fall for nothing."
And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community… if "hard nosed realists" say that profit is the only ideal… just ignore them, and use copyleft all the same.”

“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”

“Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.”

“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”

“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”