“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

“Suitable is the happiness when there is whole existence, and you don't have whole existence more than marriage.”

“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”

“Those who seek respect without deserving it end up surrounding themselves with flatterers, or people who claim to respect you when they don't.”

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”

“I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be one of the people who is perfectly happy saying no; respect should be earned. And without being earned, you don't get it. It's really that simple.”

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy”

“It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.”