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

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

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.

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

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

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

I've been going to 'Supernatural' conventions, so they tend to be big 'Lost' fans and big 'Supernatural' fans, but it's usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into 'Lost.' But on the conventions circuit, it's Lucifer.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.