Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

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.

Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world

History provides no precise guidelines.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

I think I'm one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.