“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”

“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”

“The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.”

“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”

“Doubt breeds doubt.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other...”

“Every traveler should make their own observation.”

“If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions correct or my thoughts as moral?”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”