The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Don't let your 'future success' dim the beauty and light that's in front of you right now.

I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

Most people feel very strongly that Donald Trump is a threat to the nation. He must be defeated.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.