It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

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.

Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one

Possibility is not a luxury

Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences . . . defines us.

He’s beautiful and broody

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.