It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

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.

We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.

WU WEIflow of Life governed by Tao

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand.

If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity from all sides.

Stay with me?” His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. “Always.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.