The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

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.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.