You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

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

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

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.

No place is better than Akron.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

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

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

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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

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

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

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

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.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Philosophy is the highest music.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

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

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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.

Never take anything for granted.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.