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.

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

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

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 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.

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

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Never complain and never explain.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

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.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

You learn a lot from traveling around.

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

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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 am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

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

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.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

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.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

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

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

Man, I really like Vegas.