"The traveler was active; he went strenuously..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.”

“What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.”

“Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.”

“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”

“Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.”

“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.”

“If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.”

“I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.”