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.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

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.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek political solutions. Diplomacy works.

I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

If simplicity were easy, we would see more of it.