The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.