The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

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.

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.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

Olivia responded with confidence, “You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?

One man with courage is a majority.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.