Risk is the salt and sugar of life..

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do..

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death..

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech..

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse t….

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as ….

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities..

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared..

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's….

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necess….

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which ….

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vi….

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure..

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good..

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which th….

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else..

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows..

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becom….

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home..