My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
A table a chair a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
A constant struggle a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings is the price of all great achievements.
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
Look I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
If I had been under ObamaCare and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government in the short run it is among the most fragile.
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic accountable and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult which is that the size and scope of government and really the size and scope of politics in our lives has grown uncomfortable unwieldy intrusive and inefficient.
Sometimes I'm so tired I look down at what I'm wearing and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down and I'm like 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup that's fine. It's pajama-y good night.'
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are in fact barely presentable.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.