I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . .

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

There are hard days to live. And sometimes they will be just a few, and sometimes they will seem endless. And eventually you'll come to understand that we've all been there before - or more than likely are going there now. And maybe that idea will make it easier for you, and maybe it won't. But there will still be hard days to live, and you will still have to find your way through them.

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.