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.

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.

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.

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

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!

An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

I need no traffic from Google. I don't care if I get one traffic referral from Google, or Bing, or Yahoo, or any of these others. It's always been that way.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.