It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Maturity - among other things the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness the good he seeks.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them that's the mark of a great player.
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
In general pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends.
I've made some great mistakes in my life but you know they were honest mistakes.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.
Are we still a country that takes risks that innovates that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.
When any government or any church for that matter undertakes to say to its subjects This you may not read this you must not see this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good bad it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good more good would happen.