Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Man, I really like Vegas.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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

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

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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.

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.

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

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

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.