Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.