When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.