Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

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.

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.

An attitude of gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of life.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.