Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.