If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I’m very free-spirited.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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.

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.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

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

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

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

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

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.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

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.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

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.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.