A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

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

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

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