He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.