I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I became a beach bum.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

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.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

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

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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.

Never get out of bed before noon.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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.

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.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

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.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

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.

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

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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

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 first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.