Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.