Tears of joy and tears of sorrow sometimes have very different causes, but always have the very same properties.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.

We do not become happy. We stop being unhappy.

Even suicidal people can smile.

Some people’s unhappiness caused or was caused by some people’s happiness.

Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.