If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

Build strong foundation under your dreams.

All work is empty save when there is love.

If you care about the people you work with then you work harder

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

He saved others, himself he cannot save!

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.