Marty Rubin

“What is love if not the desire for another's happiness?”

“To be happy for the happiness of others, that is true generosity.”

“I never make plans; that would make my happiness dependent on the future. I simply live.”

“You can't do the impossible, but you can do something, and that something you can do is your freedom and your happiness.”

“Only one question worth asking: why aren't you happy just to be alive?”

“Don't be passive. Act. Have interests, if you want to be happy. Don't just let life happen to you.”

“You want to be happy? Treat people with the same respect you want to be treated.”

“Hope not, despair not.. The human race is the human race. Nothing can be done about it.”

“So long as the future remains unwritten, there's hope.”

“If I had to give the young one piece of advice, it would be this: don't believe in tomorrow.”

“We grow stronger and freer with every hope, every belief, we discard.”

“People don't need hope to be happy; they need something to do.”

“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”

“The conservative puts his faith in yesterday but yesterday never comes.”

“Losing my faith was like losing a job I never wanted in the first place.”

“What faith and prayers can't get you through, a sense of humor can.”

“Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.”

“Writing is a way of opening up to the world.”

“Writing is like life: it goes on.”

“A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”