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.

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.

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

Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life

It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free.

Life has only three states-Happiness, Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest more."

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.