The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.
I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
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.
I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.