I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?

The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.