Two become one when two are in love—or when the waitress asks about our dinner bill. I’ll pay next time, I promise.

A brand-new event coming in at $2.5 million — we’re pretty excited. The hospitality has been great, and the course was in great shape as well. I hope this is a long-term deal. I think...

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements, or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner...

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Her vagina feels like home, while her sister’s vagina feels like a hotel room. I should ask for a late checkout.

There is great value in being able to say “yes” when people ask if there is anything they can do. By letting people pick herbs or slice bread instead of bringing a salad, you make...

I make love like the 13th floor is the 14th floor of a hotel. I give it that little extra that takes it to a whole new level.

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by...

There is a rational part of my brain and it says, Don’t zap them, Warren. Ask questions first, find out who they are and why they’re here, on your doorstep, lurking, banging. Find out their...

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. …Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every...

There is no hospitality like understanding.

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it’s during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can...

I’ve always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.

I have a mansion of an imagination, and I cordially invite you to come sleep in my shed.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough...

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image,...

Help yourself to a bottle of wine. They’re all empty.

There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That’s a pretty sickly witches’ brew for a...

In Ireland, you go to someone’s house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you’re really just fine. She asks if you’re sure. You say of...

At the Peabody Hotel, you’ll find two things: a pea and a body. Was it murder by starvation? Come spend the night and decide for yourself.

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the...

Hotel hallways should have conveyer belts for floors, so I can feel like a grocery item on vacation. I guess I’m just a romantic.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be...

But still – that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and...

It’s likely that every day presents an opportunity for you to practice radical hospitality to someone with whom you cross paths. There is no shortage of people who could use the fit of a caring,...

the stranger’s room.” Not because these people thought they could trace something of someone they loved in the stranger who used it, not because the man or woman to whom they gave shelter reminded them...

I’d like to open a restaurant. Would you eat at a place called Filthy’s? The name would be better than the food, which in turn would be better than the service.

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice...

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

How can the minister explain $42 million on travel and hospitality, while Coast Guard vessels were tied up at wharves across this country because they couldn’t afford fuel?

I asked for a small drink, but he didn’t ask me what cup size. What, will a small not fit in a large?

I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there...

I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?

My hotel room has a great view. The view is right in front of the TV.

A hotel is more than bricks and blankets. A hotel is a welcoming atmosphere, and a place to engage in a business transaction with a prostitute.

Hospitality is the practice of God’s welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God’s actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

A hotel is a temporary aquarium for people. That’s why I travel with a fishing pole, and erectile dysfunction medicine.

I found the term ‘southern hospitality’ fits that area,

No thanks, I’ve already got a spot of tea on my shirt.

If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream.

Instead of practicing philoxenos, which means loving the stranger, we find many times that the church is xenophobic. We forget that Jesus, whom we claim to follow, was the ultimate lover of otherness in people....

How many people make that? Not that many. People working in the hospitality industry and in our stores – they may make $9 or $10 an hour. Not that many of them make that kind...

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.