161 Quotes by Tahir Shah

I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.