Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand RussellThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand RussellI think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.
Bertrand Russell