The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

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

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

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.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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 I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

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.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

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.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Fear is exciting for me.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

There are no rules when it comes to love.