George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

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.

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.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

When I go home to visit, they never treat me like a celebrity. They still treat me like TJ. If I leave dishes in the sink, they'll let me know.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else