Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

It’s human nature to view life from our own reality.This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

Tightened his bootlaceSharpened his bladeThe Hunter walked along and prayedFor tonight's prey--Song Of the Hunter

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang!

Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body's oxygen cycle.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

Stepping on set is always overwhelming.

If it has a use it isn't art.

I haven't quite wrapped my brain around the sleeping part yet, but I'm definitely working like a maniac.