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.

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

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

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?

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

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.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Rap was my drug.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

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

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

The reward of suffering is experience.

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

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.