Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.