Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

But what can you say in a letter?

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.