If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator—it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.