One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

The natural order of life is not the thinking and imagination, but living in the moment, with absolute trust.

The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love.

The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.

None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.