When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

And in fact you can find that the lack of basic resources material resources contributes to unhappiness but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it there should be development of art and culture literature and education science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

For this generation ours life is nuclear survival liberty is human rights the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Let us develop the resources of our land call forth its powers build up its institutions promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.