Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

Keep Patience And Get Perfection

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

Whoever needs the relationship less has all the power.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!