Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. - André Maurois

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

In 1936 at the time when the German troops had reoccupied the Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Locarno, English public opinion, drunk with pacifism, had refused to support us.
"Why should we?" an English politician said to me. "The Germans can do what they like in their own back garden."

No great amount of experience is required to discover that the greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.