Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

No matter what happens in our life, its our thinking that determines its quality.

No matter what happens to us in our life, it's our thinking that determines its quality.