You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction, is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

A career is a career, but youre a mother until you die.