If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Writers turn dreams into print.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.