The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics... - Bertrand Russell

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."