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.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

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.

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

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

London is a roost for every bird.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Obscenity comes from grime.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

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

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

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.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.