There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.