I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.