If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!