Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.

History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.