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

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.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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

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.

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.

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.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

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.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Touring is hard on the body.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

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.

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

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

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

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.‘

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

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.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

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.

No place is better than Akron.

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

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

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.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

London is a roost for every bird.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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

I’ll stay in Memphis.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.