I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life.

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.

Effectiveness of life should be measured by the results in the area of your calling or purpose

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

Every day the sun is rising for you.Every morning birds are singing for you. In the garden, flowers are blooming for you. Every river is flowing with life just for you.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The dice cannot read their own spots.

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.