Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

A life of service is a life well and greatly lived.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.