I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.