“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

Source: How to Save a Life

"A hundred years of thinking about God" (1998)

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

Source: I Capture the Castle

Variant: One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity.
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 144

Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 7
Context: The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am a man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Luciana Borio, former director of Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy at the National Security Council, said at a symposium at Emory University in Atlanta in 2018: &quot;The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern, are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no.&quot; As quoted in Contrary to Trump’s Claim, A Pandemic Was Widely Expected at Some Point https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/contrary-to-trumps-claim-a-pandemic-was-widely-expected-at-some-point/ (March 20, 2020) by Rem Rieder, FactCheck.org. <br class="br">2020s, 2020, February, Donald Trump Charleston, South Carolina Rally (February 28, 2020)

Source: Life Expectancy