When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

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.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

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

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

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

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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

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.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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.‘

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

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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.

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.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

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.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.