Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

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

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.