It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them by observation and by measuring electrical activity in the brain in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Everybody wants you to do good things but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

So you can say 'Get Big Government out of here and don't tell me what to eat ' but when kids are going to school and they're being fed junk we're pretty much telling them what to eat and we're telling them junk is OK.

Under the administration of George W. Bush you will recall federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.