“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes
“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him