Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.