However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.