“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”

“A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.”

“Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace..”

“I too tried to look at matter from a more generous perspective: I didn't succeed. but now I've gained courage; I've reached the depths and discovered that there is light at the bottom.”

“It doesn't matter," he said to his sheep. "I know other girls in other places." But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.”

“I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve”

“I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things.”