Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.

I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

All nature wears one universal grin.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.