The more one loves, the less one judges.

The pursuit of knowledge is the most noble of human endeavors.

"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."

The concept of 'loss aversion' plays a critical role in decision-making, where the pain of losing is psychologically twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining.