Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

a leadership is a position of action process of abolition, completion of mission, over come oppositionand submission of duties

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life