Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.