Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

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

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Touring is hard on the body.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

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.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

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?‘

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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.

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

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

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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

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

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Sevier County is a great area.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

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

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

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

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

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.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

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.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Truth is a pathless land.

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.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

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.

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.