My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will.
In giving advice, try to help, not to please.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.