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

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I became a beach bum.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

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

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

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.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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 am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

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

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.