Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

What is life if not joy?

Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.