The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

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.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

No matter how talented you are, if you don't persist the probability of achieving your goals is extremely small".

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

The great ones don't come cheap.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?