When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue.
Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.