On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.