I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

I just prefer my fiction with more teeth.

I do not laugh

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.