The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. – Joseph Butler
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. – Benjamin Franklin
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and Ive seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. – Dominic Chianese
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mothers into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence. – Michael Sheen
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. – Charles Dickens
