Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

Tell me something, princess, if I make a liar out of you…will you forgive me?” Hex James, Hex upon Me

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.

We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.

Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.