"Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up."

"All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you."

"By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'"

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

"The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy."