In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Through discipline comes freedom.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

The idea of anyone collecting compact discs just seems bizarre to me.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.