For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

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.

...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled."You're going to be fifty anyhow

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.