Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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