The Secret Of Happiness Is Something To

[invading Iraq] Is Not The Best Way To Make A Safer World In Which The United States Would Be A Responsible Partner, But It Also Goes Against The Role Of Law In The United States.

There Is A Condition Or Circumstance That Has A Greater Bearing Upon The Happiness Of Life Than Any Other. What Is It? Something To Do; Some Congenial Work. Take Away The Occupation Of All People And What A Wretched World It Would Be.

The Tendinous Part Of The Mind, So To Speak, Is More Developed In Winter; The Fleshy, In Summer. I Should Say Winter Had Given The Bone And Sinew To Literature, Summer The Tissues And The Blood.

How Many Thorns Of Human Nature - Hard, Sharp, Lifeless Protuberances That Tear And Wound Us, Narrow Prejudices, Bristling Conceits That Repel And Disgust Us - Are Arrested Developments, Calcified Tendencies, Buds Of Promise That Should Have Lifted A Branch Up Into The Sunny Day With Fruit; And Flowers To Delight The Heart Of Men, But Now All Grown Hard, Petrified, For Want Of Culture And A Congenial Soil And Climate.

We've Been In A Period Of Relative Stability And Cooperation Since The End Of The Cold War Among The World's Major Powers, But That May Not Always Exist. And Certainly One Could Even Predict That There Will Be Periods Of Hostility Or Tension Ahead.