Finnish President Alexander Stubb at the Nordic Council Theme Session 2025 in Helsinki on 1 April 2025, offered this advice:
If you are looking for timeless ideas and good advice for dealing with today’s pressing needs, look no further than children’s literature.
We all remember what Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking exclaimed in her moment of victory:
“If you are very strong, you must also be very kind.”
He might also have offered this Moomintroll advice for those who disrespect President Trump's attempts to broker peace in the Ukraine:
It’s wrong to be disrespectful to elderly gentlemen.
And Moominpappa's wise words about media coverage of the war:
I knew nothing, but I believed a lot.