A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

No circumstance is uncommon to a man.

Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.

Be wary of the praise of men

I love you, ” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.