One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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.

My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

Luis Suarez is a victim of his own make-up

Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.