You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

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.

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.

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

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.