Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?.

Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Like many things, I am nothing.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.