Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures

If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority

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 –

People never forget two things, their first love and their first day in New York City

I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts; breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them

It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others

I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore.

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

There’s a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die—their silence. For a while an echo stays in your ear. You hear a laugh, a knowing phrase or two, a certain quality of enunciation. Then, nothing. Another death takes place—voices.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more responsible citizens we can be for the environment. It's all interactive. It's all connected together. There's no separation.

Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

Hell is just resistance to life.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

If ethics is not the engine of success in the train of growth it sure is a guard with a flag which may be green or at times red.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.