In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.