Happiness is a real objective phenomenon scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

There are a lot of good causes out there but they can't possibly all be served by government.

A God without dominion providence and final causes is nothing else but fate and nature.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips over the past four or five months with my diabetes.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession problems in mortgage markets the problems in the banking sector the problems in government finance in countries like Greece none of those problems were in present Canada.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear and then to go for higher causes higher purposes.

At one point in my life I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved but now I have a family and it's important to me.