140 Quotes by Michael Palin

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

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.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.