A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice, and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.

As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Set your business plan to win raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

I love taking pictures of food.