I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

Delaware is not like Hollywood. But Delaware is cool. All you really need is a gym and a couple good places to eat and a movie theater.

The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.