The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

She wondered how it would feel to be beautiful and have it taken away. How much harder would it be than never knowing what it felt like in the first place?

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

Remember to be awesome.