You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

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.

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.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Fast cars are my only vice.

I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.