Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.