Not all those who wander are lost.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

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.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

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

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

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

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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.

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.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

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

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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 cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

London is a roost for every bird.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

You learn a lot from traveling around.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

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.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

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.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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 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.

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.