All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like.

Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident

No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell.

the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.