Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the people they ignore at home

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.

The journey not the arrival matters.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

You can do a lot with diplomacy but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.

I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

Disappoint anyone... hell disappoint everyone but dont ever disappoint yourself.

I really love a red lip, especially when I am feeling tired, as it brightens my whole face.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.