I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.

H. L. Mencken

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Source Unknown

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imaginedfuture, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love ora passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convincedthat even the smallest particle of the surrounding world wascharged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, andone would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by thehigh, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, somany and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like firefliesin the perfumed heat of summer night.

Mark Strand

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Brian Clough

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Danish proverb

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Jodi Picoult

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

Channing Pollock