A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment we lose our humanity.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

Truth for him was a moving target he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.