The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

The sooner and easier they buy into it, the better they are.

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.