We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.