I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.