Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

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.

If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands, for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty

Black is bountiful. White is witful. Together they are beautiful.

If you fast, the fat in your body will waste away.

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.