Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.
Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Hurting people is my business.
I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.