...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.