I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

The more I learn, the more doors of information and opportunity are open to me.

Don't hold it, shouldn't stop it. Let it come, let it flow. Let it reach the positivity, bring the happiness

You make me want things that I can't have.

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.

Unless you change who you are now, you'll never get what you want. If you change who you are and how you are, then you’ll get what you want.

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

Sometimes I hate the job that I do as an actor. I feel like I'm just of no importance in the world, but sometimes you get a real thrill out of the diversity of the work.

The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?