“A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.”

“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”

“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man’s original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.”

“Those who see the truth as trouble will end up having to see trouble as the truth.”

“Real freedom lies in wildness,not in civilization!!”

“Your tears only water your weeds”

“Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.”

“Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality or to introduce a new kind of love, a new kind of hate or pain or happiness or wonder or… anything we want. Through words, we can do, we can be anything we want.”

“The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American…(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what’s happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.”

“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”

“You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you’ve enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it wasn’t disappointing. She sounds exactly as I remember her—and there is still something so warm and caring about her that it is difficult to hate her for how she abandoned us.”

“Think it. Write it. Sell it.”

“Extend your “best before” date by living a youthful life.”

“Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.”

“Being a senior doesn’t automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.”