Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.