On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

Blank pages are cruelPure torture in white or beigeBut how else to start

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Never stop developing and perfecting your abilities, even if you have already achievedsignificant, visible results.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

Benzedrine often helps a case run.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.