In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

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.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.