Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive - Ursula K. Le Guin

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. — Chuang Tse: XXIII

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises: and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?