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.

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

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.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

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.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

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.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

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.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

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

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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.

No place is better than Akron.

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

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

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

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

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

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

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

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.