Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

The best dress for walking is nakedness.

Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

I do what I do instinctively, and that’s me. If you like me, that’s fine; if you don’t like me then don’t watch me.

Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.

Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

Life should be an unfinished business.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

Heal the world, make it a better place.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.