It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
There is no hospitality like understanding.
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.
Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.
Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.
The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.
Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.