This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can’t just let them leave.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

These people in the media, they may hate Donald Trump, but they cannot stop covering him.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.