“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”

“You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.”

“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”