When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

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.

Travel teaches toleration.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

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

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

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!

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.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

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

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

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.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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.

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

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

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

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.