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

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.

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.

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

I am capable.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Yes, stop your beliefs for a few moments now and then and Be-Life.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible now theres a woman.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

As a member of Congress, I strongly believe I have a responsibility to be truthful, even if that means delivering difficult news.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.