Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. – Michael Palin
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. – Michael Palin
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. – Michael Palin
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. – Edwin P. Whipple, lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Associa