No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can

Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

What is patriotism but a love of the food one ate as a child?

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

... neckties strangle clear thinking.