If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.