“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”

“These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.”

“There is no happiness without forgetfulness. I have never known a real man of action to be unhappy during action. How could he be? Like a child at play, he stops thinking of himself.”

““Is he then an unhappy man?”
Poirot said:
“So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.”
The nun said softly:
“Ah, a rich man…””

“Great actions can only be born out of great thoughts.”

“There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.”

“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”

“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”

“All our thoughts and beliefs are somehow hollow until they find expression in action.”