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.

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

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

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

Your inner voice whispers, but speaks the loudest.

We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.

You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go.

The best thing you can do for yourself is live a life that's fulfilling and do all the things that make you happy.

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

I always make healthy choices.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.

All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.

Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

I like to win the difficulties, because when you win the difficulties, it makes you stronger, so I'm trying to do everything to come up to a new level.

It is very hard to win when your thoughts turn to losing.

It's easier to get to the top when you're shooting for the top.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

The Boston people were willing to learn but only if one recognized how much they knew already.