There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.