We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.

Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

I can't explain some of the things I've seen and...I've done some things I can't explain.

The problem with striving for the best, is that there will be always better than the best.

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

You know everybody has something to say. I'll be worried when they say nothing.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?