Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

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.

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

Charity and treating begin at home.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.