If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.