I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.

I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap, or the person people think I am.

When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something.

Hey, look, I just regenerated a finger. Guess which one.

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.