“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”

“Go into the London Stock Exchange a more respectable place than many a court and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and C...”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”

“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”