If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
“I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.”
“When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.”