Travel Quotes

"The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats."

"Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity."

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

"I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers."

"Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader."

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."

"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

"The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ."

"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."

"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."