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Adventures are to the adventurous.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.