Travel which was once either a necessity or an adventure has become very largely a commodity and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement too.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry but by demonstrating that all peoples cry laugh eat worry and die it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other we may even become friends.

I suppose in a way this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters I've done wearing it. When the time comes it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American and a soldier?

I had become with the approach of night once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Don't be a time manager be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Then not only an old man but also a drunkard becomes a second time a child.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.