One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I am two with nature.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

Travel teaches toleration.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

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.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

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?

I became a beach bum.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.