Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

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.

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

You can be very promiscuous in your research, but not in your trading.