The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.