Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

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.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

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

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

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.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

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

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

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

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

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

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.

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.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

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

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

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

London is a roost for every bird.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

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