Quotes About Authenticity

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

The trademark Joseph Abboud style is the man first and the clothes second. The guy's the star. Everything else is a supporting actor.

I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success.

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.