I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

worms are the words but joy's the voice

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.