“..:Age is not an enemy. Age brings forth widom, character, values and integrity. It all depends on how you welcome it, see it and persive it. It all depends on how much you are willing to learn. Being coachable and having the right attitude, will deffenetly take you places that you never even dream of. Age can help you grow weaker or a lot stronger:..”

“How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.”

“How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing. ”

“I am acutely aware that I am now the middle-aged traveler that I used to consider to lame, so embarrassing. And I have something to say to my 20-year-old self:You cannot possibly know how much time it takes to learn to treasure this world, how many years it takes to properly cherish your place in it.As you age, you will find it more and more remarkable, a miracle really, that any of us -- you, me -- are here at all, the result of an undeserved, infinite gift.And the older you get, the more you know how much you will miss all this when you are gone. In the end, the world was not all that changed by your coming, you were not all that crucial to it. But the world, this world, which you will one day travel in homage and gratitude, this world was everything to you.”

“Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.”

“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ”