it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

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.

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.