Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

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.

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.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Truth is a pathless land.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

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

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

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

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Sevier County is a great area.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

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.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

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’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

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

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

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.