John

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."

[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
― Winston Churchill