As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.