We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.