I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I make good music for long journeys.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Touring is hard on the body.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

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

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

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.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

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

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

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

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

America is just downright mean.

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

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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 want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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.

Travel teaches toleration.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

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

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.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

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

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.