If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

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

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

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.

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

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

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.

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.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

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 don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.