Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

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.

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!‘

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

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 like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

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

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

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

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

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

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

No place is better than Akron.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.