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

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.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

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.

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.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

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.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

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.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

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.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

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

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

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

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.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.