"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.96, Westminster John Knox Press
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