Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

It is ok to make mistakes in life as long as you try again”.

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

The victim is always morally superior to the master

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Finding the funny is the key to never losing your edge

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Who gets to decide what you want?

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.