A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if youre up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. – Cory Lidle
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. – Ella Maillart