I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

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.

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.

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 love to travel, but hate to arrive.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

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

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Touring is hard on the body.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

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

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

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.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

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

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.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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.

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

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

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

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

I love trying new things.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

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

Paris is always a good idea.