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.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, ‚We’ve got to evacuate. There’s a hurricane’s coming.‘

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

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

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

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

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.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Sevier County is a great area.

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.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

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

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.

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

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

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

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

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

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

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?

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

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

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Travel teaches toleration.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

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

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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.

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.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

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.

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

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.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

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.