To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
From Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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