There are no foreign lands.  It is the traveler only that is foreign.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

- Robert Louis Stevenson