If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

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.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

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.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

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.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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.

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.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

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

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

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

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.

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

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.