Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

When words leave off, music begins.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.