The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place time and ability.

There is one quality which one must possess to win and that is definiteness of purpose the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.

Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be with an individual.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought system planning intelligence and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

The Grateful Dead they're my best friends. Their message of hope peace love teamwork creativity imagination celebration the dance the vision the purpose the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

To be honest I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl does it?

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

In my view far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting the New York Times the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.