The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.