Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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.

Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.