I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

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

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

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

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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

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

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

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.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

NBC had a show called ‚The Toughest Bouncer in America‘ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‚bouncer.‘ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

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.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

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.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

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.

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

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.