My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

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.

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.