The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

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.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.