There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

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

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

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?

The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one