“There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.”

Gorkha, Nepal

"May you always find new roads to travel; new horizons to explore; new dreams to call your own."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“While we try to teach children all about life, children teach us what life is all about.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."

Shanghai, China

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it."

Lamjung, Nepal

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

"To know the height of a mountain, one must climb it."

Tuhure Pasal, Nepal

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Winona, Minnesota

“Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.”

Krakow, Poland

"Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

Westfield, Wisconsin

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. "

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

Hong Kong

"You cannot step into the same river twice."

Lamjung, Nepal

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

Victoria, Seychelles

"When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled."

Chiang Mai, Thailand

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

Barcelona, Spain

"Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

Istanbul, Turkey

"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Mequon, Wisconsin