Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

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 only source of knowledge is experience.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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

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.

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.

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.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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!

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

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.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

Philosophy is the highest music.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s – the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.