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.

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

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...

Orang-orang itu telah melupakan bahwa belajar tidaklah melulu untuk mengejar dan membuktikan sesuatu, namun belajar itu sendiri, adalah perayaan dan penghargaan pada diri sendiri. (hlm. 197)

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

May I respond by merely saying, "I hate crocs. May they please go away."

I did my time in the jail of your arms