Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

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.

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

Let love simply bloom... and it is unstoppable.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.