Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.