"People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself."

"Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies."

"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

"Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity."

"I do not take drugs, I am drugs."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."

"The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster."

"I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will."