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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Travel teaches toleration.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

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

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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.

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

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

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.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Truth is a pathless land.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

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

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.

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!‘

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

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

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

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

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

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.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

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.