I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

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.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

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.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

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

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

Sevier County is a great area.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

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

I became a beach bum.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

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.

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.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

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

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