Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Sevier County is a great area.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

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?

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

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

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

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.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.