Draws Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant…

— Margaret Thatcher

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history…

— David Christian

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

— James E. Faust

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through…

— Ian K. Smith

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

— Ayrton Senna

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

— Christopher Peterson

“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”

— Albert Camus

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by…

— Neil Gaiman

“They are emerging, these creatives, in spite of everything; and they are essential because they are the signs of hope in a place that,…

— Teju Cole

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never…

— Peter Russell