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!

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.

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.

Quotes is just quotes, cannot change your world if you not do think in that quotes, so just go and do anything...

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.

The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.