You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

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.

Our destinies depend on the choices we make. Be it wise or stupid.

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

The life is all about sharing a little part of your life to make others happy, to became happy.

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!

Love yourself and you can heal your life.

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.