Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

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.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

There is divinity within every soul.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.