To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.