Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they?

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.

Wanderlust is incurable.

Science is a hammer for change.

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

The hearts and thoughts are the sacred springs of life.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.