A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.