"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.