“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”

“Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.”

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.”

“It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”

“When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.”

“I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's ...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”