Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius, The Letters of Junius 'D

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Wayne Coyne

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Source Unknown

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

Kim Kardashian

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

Thomas Fuller

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Thomas Hobbes

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

Libby Trickett

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Dorothy L. Sayers