I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

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.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

If you support the community, they will support you.

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith.

love is all about timing

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.