Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach

Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Dream in a pragmatic way

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you