Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!