A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.