The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity and with respect only to the present world is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Power must be used but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment the capacity to believe or at some point in your life when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself you simply make an agreement.

Since God knows our future our personalities and our capacity to listen He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.