From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.