It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.