The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Haris...as a naive migrantwho just moved here, relying on you tapered worries.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.