When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

They come to me when they're happy or unhappy, or want something different.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.