Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

The dead are emotionless.

Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.