People who don't travel cannot have a global view all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Tourists don't know where they've been travelers don't know where they're going.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough but you shiver. You are fed yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time the Bastard Time.

Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Seek always to do some good somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel he ends by having many acquaintances but no friends.

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time somewhere someone said to themselves You know I want to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere really but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help obviously but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.

I learn more with every job and I'm very thankful for where I am.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life where things could've gone the other way.

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

I decided that if I were to write a teen series I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager especially and especially in the society we live in.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is and then anticipate the next upturn.

From a technical point of view there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing the boom in digital audio has already happened.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture and really the only basis still remains the rule more so today I think because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.