Lost Horizon

"You would be surprised how a little courtesy all around helps to smooth out the most complicated problems."

"A prolonged future doesn't excite me.  It would have to have a point."

"Everybody wants something for nothing."

"You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain.  Why don't you try looking at the top sometimes?"

"What makes a criminal?  Lack, generally."

"We rule with moderate strictness and, in return, we are satisfied with moderate obedience.  As a result, our people are moderately honest, moderately chaste, and somewhat more than moderately happy."

"Age is a limit we impose on ourselves."

"This not-knowing-where-you're-going is exciting."

"There are moments in every man's life when he glimpses the eternal."

"Don't you ever want to see what's on the other side of the hill?"