"The happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it."

"Meaningful work and meaningful relationships are the keys to a good life."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."