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

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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 everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

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

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

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

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.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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

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

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

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.

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

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

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Man, I really like Vegas.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

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

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.