It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.

The best decision you could make in an event of failure, is to still believe in yourself.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.