All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.

Now I know there are many Americans who say 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

It's in the history books the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits many others are unemployed underemployed without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

We each have a personal myth a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

Because we spoke so loudly opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments poorer health lower cognitive development and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves thereby repeating the cycle.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues as disease is far more contagious than health.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

Happiness to some elation Is to others mere stagnation.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt and wish to pass on to others is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Happiness was not made to be boasted but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.