They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

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.

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

Many Christians are like servants with “shoes.

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.