It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

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.

Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.

It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

[I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

Liberalism is [ CNN infobabes] religion; it's all a matter of faith. Nobody attacking it is gonna be listened to.