Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.