Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

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.

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.