'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

I should have trusted you…the woman I fell in love with.

Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Wear the outfit; don't let the outfit wear you.

I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.