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

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

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.

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

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

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

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

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

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.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

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

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

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

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

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

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.