It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit I'll break up with someone on purpose.
If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.
A great figure or physique is nice but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government they assume that its might makes it right.
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.