We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

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 a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.