What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. – Bernard Cornwell
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Im a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, it has results. Its an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. – Tommy Lee Jones