I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.