If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

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.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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

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

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

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.

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

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

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.

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

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Sevier County is a great area.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

Travel teaches toleration.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

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

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

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!

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

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.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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

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

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

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

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

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