With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow—I still have joy in the midst of these things.

CONFUCIUS

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss.

FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

ROBERT BROWNING

Gladness of the heart is the life of a man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

ECCLESIASTICUS 30:22

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud—We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colors a suffusion from that light.

SAMUEL COLERIDGE

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

JESUS OF NAZARETH Matthew 25:21

"On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined!" is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.

MARK TWAIN

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately—unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

DICK BUTKUS

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

ERIC HOFFER

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you.

ANONYMOUS

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

JOSEPH JOUBERT

Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes—these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles.

JOHN HALL

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. Mental trouble was never known to arise from such quarters. Though they do not cost much yet they accomplish much. They make other people good natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

BLAISE PASCAL

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

MISS MANNERS

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power is a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and infinite in duration.

DE WITT CLINTON

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. MENCKEN

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

DANIEL WEBSTER

You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.

GOD, TO ADAM Genesis 2:16-17

We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."

EVE, TO SERPENT Genesis 3:2-3

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

OSCAR WILDE

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

WM. J. H. BOETCKER

I know only two tunes; one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't.

U. S. GRANT