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

"What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place."

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."