“On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man”

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Man is never perfect nor contented.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

What you do for money you do badly.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Perhaps the storm is what we needed to understand the calm.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Take a California girl to a body of water and she calms from the crashing of waves. Sanctuary.

I found peace in your eyes and calmness in your arms.

After the currents have calmed and rocks you have endured I promise to be the river guiding you home.

Be a calm wave in your ocean of chaos.