Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they?

Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.

Wanderlust is incurable.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

It's always better to be real.

Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.

What power has love but forgiveness?