Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

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

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

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

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

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

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

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Paris is always a good idea.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

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 signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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