I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Christopher Hitchens

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Alan Autry

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

Paris Hilton

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!

Yvonne Pierre

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Christian Bale

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

Thea Harrison

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.

American Indian Proverb, Plains