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My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Happiness Love Marriage Parents

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Family Home Productivity Satisfaction Writing

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Agnosticism Atheism Belief Religion

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Church Contemplation Peace Problems Religion

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Reisen Trave Travel Traveling

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Humor Machu Picchu Travel

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Capitalism Competition Democracy Equality Poor Poverty

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.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Future Diversity Violence

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Man Changes People

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Love Travel Art

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Travel You Back

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin Life Me Moments

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

~ Michael Palin

Michael Palin My Life Ride Bicycle
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