“We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.”

“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?”

“… 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 convolute...”

“The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.”

“The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when th...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”