Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.