To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

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.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

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

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

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

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

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

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.

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

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

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.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

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.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

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

Paris is always a good idea.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

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?

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

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 really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

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

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!

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

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.‘

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

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.

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

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.