Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.