The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.
People who are too uptight make me nervous.
As we express our appreciation of our many blessings, we become more conscious of what the Lord has done for us, and thereby we become more appreciative