Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment..

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses a….

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue..

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting o….

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem..

Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than g….

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience..

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked wi….

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap..

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or ….

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours..

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life..

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results..

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a r….

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his v….

There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly re….

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insec….

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English pros….

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying..