A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision

A man without trust might as well be dead.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

I had a 15th club in my bag.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.