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.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It’s known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

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.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

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

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.

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

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

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

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

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

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.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

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

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

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

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

I love driving my car on any highway.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

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!‘

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

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

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.