In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.