A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.