If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. – Lech Walesa