I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path