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

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

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

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

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.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

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

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

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.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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

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

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

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

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

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

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

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

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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