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

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

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