Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

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

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.