Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Liberty begets license.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

I personally don't believe anything is impossible. With enough determination and effort, almost everything is possible.