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

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

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.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

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

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

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Truth is a pathless land.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

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

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

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?

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

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

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

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

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

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

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

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

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.