"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

~ Paulo Coelho (One of Brazil's most successful novelists)

Baia de Guanabara by kmolz

"The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Tree in transition

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Camel Caravan Crossing the Lybian Desert

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

~ Buddha

Quiet beach on Koh Phi Phi Leh, southern Thailand

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The classic view of Machu Picchu

"Rome wasn't built in a day."

~ Proverb

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

~ Aldous Huxley

Bill Lockhart's photographic experience spans four decades; his photographic awards are too numerous to list, but include well over 100 photographs of the day, photographs of the week, and photographs of the month, at many Internet forums.

He travels extensively throughout the world, his most recent trips include journeys to South Africa, Tanzania, Alaska, Scotland, the Farne Islands, Poland, the American North West, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Slovenia, and Orkney.

Eilean Donan (Scotland)

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

~ Marcel Proust

Clifton Suspension Bridge