“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” – James Russell Lowell

“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.” – M.C. Escher

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” – Joseph Stalin

“Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm

“Pride is the fire that ignites our ambitions. Humility is the fire screen that keeps us from burning down the house.” – Michael Masterson

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.” – Thomas Sowell