"You can go to the Himalayas... you take your mind with you. It's like having a television playing endless reruns of soap operas... how boring it is! 'Oh, not that one!'"
~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

"Why do we seek climates warmed by another sun? Who is the man that by fleeing from his country, can also flee from himself?"
~Horace

"Do not think that you have found real peace when you feel no burden, nor that all is well with you when you suffer no opposition, nor assume that to be perfect when everything happens in accord with your liking; nor reckon yourself in any way great at such a time."
~Thomas à Kempis

"I quote others only to speak my own mind better."
~Michel de Montaigne