The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

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.

Once your intentions are real and wise, helpful and positive, keep going forward. Never ever give up!

He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

I really like to cook.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.