Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

We must stop being the stupid party.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.