A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.