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.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

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.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

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

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Paris is always a good idea.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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 have no trouble sleeping.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I became a beach bum.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.