Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.

Teaching is the best way to learn.

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.