Not all those who wander are lost.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Truth is a pathless land.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

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.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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

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 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.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

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.

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

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

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

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

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

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

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

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.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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