The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. – Benjamin Franklin
A man may take as much exercise in walking a mile up and down stairs, as in ten on level ground. – Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin
With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook