I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

Without adversity, we will not have seen the sweetness of God’s splendid.

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

Someone has to do everything that is done.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.