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

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.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

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

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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

Pop music will never be low brow.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Man, I really like Vegas.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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

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.

Obscenity comes from grime.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

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.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

I make good music for long journeys.

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

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

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

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.