“People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!”

“Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!”

“In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!”

“When you feel yourself unhappy, look at a smiling child, you will feel happy again!”

“When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy!”

“The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!”

“When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.”