The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.