The Son of God had missionary supporters
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder. . . is clothes.
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.
Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.
There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.
I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!
New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.