All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

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.

Experience is more important than knowledge.

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse: "To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

Doing nothing, badly.

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure