My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

I keep things pretty simple.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.