Bad stories can create good people, and I wanted to protect them from those bad stories so they could live with the good person they'd created without ever worrying about what I had to go through to...

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light.

It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my...

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you - - don't you think?

Kale pe a, repeated my friend. It is an ancient Tibetan farewell when a caravan sets out to climb the high peaks. It means - go slowly if you wish to return.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

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.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

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

Will you remember this day, Gogol? his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. How long do I have to remember it? Over the rise and...

Bridges are meant to connect They're meant to defy drops and distances, but occasionally we lose our way.... we fall off, we drive off, we consider jumping. -Razor aka. Thomas Turner pg. 410

For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but...

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.