A Personal Credo

The late Kenneth Clark was the Director of the National Gallery in London during WWII. His personal credo is below which will help to wipe away the current funk:
-I believe that order is better than chaos.
-That creation is better than destruction.
-I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta.
-That knowledge is preferable to ignorance.
-And I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.
Words to live by!
tjs
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/books/kenneth-clark-biography-james-stourton.html