To Taste The Sea All One Needs

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.

He Who Knows How To Be Content Will Be Content With Little.

What Is An Optimist? The Man Who Says, "it's Worse Everywhere Else. We're Better Off Than The Rest Of The World. We've Been Lucky." He Is Happy With Things As They Are And He Doesn't Torment Himself. What Is A Pessimist? The Man Who Says, "things Are Fine Everywhere But Here. Everyone Else Is Better Off Than We Are. We're The Only Ones Who've Had A Bad Break." He Torments Himself Continually.

But What Can You Say In A Letter?

It Is Unthinkable In The Twentieth Century To Fail To Distinguish Between What Constitutes An Abominable Atrocity That Must Be Prosecuted And What Constitutes That "past" Which "ought Not To Be Stirred Up.