Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith!

They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.