I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

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.

The "question" is the source of human evolution and revolution.

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Size counts. That's all.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power