“ everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted...”

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. Theyre right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes lif...”

“a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.”

“GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole personspend time with the dyingsee things through to the end.”

“Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.”

“In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?”

“THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...”

“People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence”

“The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.”

“And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.”

“I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embr...”

“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”

“Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint youOn the sky, on the ceiling, on the snow; on the tabletOf things eternal : love truth beauty happiness”

“Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!”

“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her”