Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.