I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I've always traveled as a kid my parents moved me around a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid living in different countries.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages know countries know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

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 whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions do not try to break them but bend them with gentleness and time.

You will launch many projects but have time to finish only a few. So think plan develop launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been or what can be counted.

The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and stadium announcements all over the country fueled by little more than coffee and adrenaline... so many fans jumped on board with us and I couldn't be more thankful.

Look folks we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics all which are reaching many.