Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

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.

For your next act, please don't pull any rabbits out of my... well, hat."....He licked playfully at her mouth. "And ya can't call my manhood 'rabbit'.

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.

I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.