I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy.Jade Gentry (Polishing Jade)

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.