I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

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.

Memories of one's past are tainted. There are no truths to be found in them.

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

There's nothing I'm scared of in football.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.