"Call me the “stan” man. Or have you ever been to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia or Kazakhstan. Give it eight weeks and I will have done them all."

"The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity."

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."

"The tool that is so dull that you cannot cut yourself on it is not likely to be sharp enough to be either u…"

"... no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its fal…"

"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defe…"

"Thank you for your loyalty, and many kindnesses through the years...You have one by one validated my modest…"