Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

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.

Pursuing a dream without God’s approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end….!

Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.