Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.