It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I loved him as we always love for the first time

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.

You must learn to save first and spend afterwards.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.