“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ”

“So many people spend so much of their life energy "sweating the small stuff" that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.”

“Big people don't make people feel small.”

“Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.”

“Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams…. A place of peace and harmony… that's the kind of land I invision.”

“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”

“The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.
-Kenshin to Eiji”

“The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.”

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”