No matter what happens, travel gives you a story.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.