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’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

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.‘

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.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

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

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

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

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 art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

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

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

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?

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

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

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.