Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.