I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.

Where are you taking me?” Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.

Vision is oxygen for companies.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

And the live show is still our main thing.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.