We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the poeple in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfilment.

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.