"As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit."

“I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life”

Source : Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.”

“My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.”

Source : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.

“I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.”

“I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.”

“The road goes ever on and on”

“We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.”

Source : James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.99, Inner City Books