On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

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

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

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.

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.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

I make good music for long journeys.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

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

London is a roost for every bird.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

No place is better than Akron.

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.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

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.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I don’t race cars.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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