You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.

Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.