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

History is more or less bunk.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

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.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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.

Adventures are to the adventurous.