Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw. Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950) Patriotism
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.