"The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic."

“We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.”

“After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.”

“My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

“It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.”

“At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.”

Source : Autobiography by Paul Nurse, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

“Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.”

“And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.”

“Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.”