If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.
To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.
With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that’s a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren’t for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn’t bother me a bit.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.