One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

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.

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

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.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.