When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

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

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Not all those who wander are lost.

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

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 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.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

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!

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.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

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’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.