Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

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.

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

When in doubt do it.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

Learn to listen and trust your inner voice

Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.