“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.”

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

“Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

“Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?”

“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”

“Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.”

“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”

“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.”