Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.