During the last regular session and the most recent special session measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.
When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions and it took its toll on all my relationships on my physical health my emotional and mental health.
All mankind... being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his life health liberty or possessions.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
Material possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
I learn from thinking about the future what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
If I studied all my life I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.