The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.