I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I am not young enough to know everything.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

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.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

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

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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

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.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

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

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

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.