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.

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

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

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.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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

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

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

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.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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.

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.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

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.

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.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

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

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.