It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

May the magic within you shine through!

Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.