"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

"All people want is someone to listen."

Cape Town, South Africa

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

Venice, Italy

"Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does."

Agra, India

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.”

Delhi, India

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Somewhere in Wisconsin (I think)

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."

Cape Town, South Africa

"We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat now."

Suzhou, China

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."

Westfield, Wisconsin

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."

Paudi, Nepal

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”

Lamjung, Nepal

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."

Near Dublin, Ireland

"I'd rather have flowers on my table than diamonds on my neck."

Krakow, Poland

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

Chennai, India

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

Tuhure Pasal, Nepal

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality."

Cape Town, South Africa

"It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is, while a man with two watches is never quite sure."

Hong Kong

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.”

Green Bay, Wisconsin 

"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful."

Praia, Cape Verde

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

In the middle of the Ocean

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand 

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

Victoria, Seychelles

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Somewhere in Hungary

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

Oswiecim, Poland

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

Istanbul, Turkey

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

Barcelona, Spain

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

Suzhou, China

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Lamjung, Nepal

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

Thomaston, Connecticut

“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.”

Chennai, India