Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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

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.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

Sorry if I can't be the right monster for you Bella.

All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.