The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.

Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.