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?

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

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

The key to being confident is taking care of yourself and feeling like you're the best you can be.

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.