If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.