Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
All I want to do is change the world.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I can’t think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.