If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Man, I really like Vegas.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

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

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.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

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.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

The first wealth is health.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

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.