Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

What’s done can’t be undone.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.