On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

I see things that nobody else sees

You have to create something from nothing.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.