Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

When I need a break, a date night with my husband or a night out with girlfriends always does the trick.

My first wife kept calling me Sal, and I finally said to her, 'Why do you think I changed my name, honey? I really didn't like the old name.'

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I do miss competition, but I get to travel a little bit on my own terms, which is a little bit different. And I get the chance to walk around, explore, and not have to save my energy for the match days.

Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I'm traveling with.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

Stay single as long as you can - you'll be married the rest of your life.

For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.

In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.

Maybe I'll want to go to Iceland and see the volcanoes, or attend some lectures, or go to Mexico and go to the jungle. On my own. With nothing whatsoever to do with music!

I'd been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing... and I felt like I wanted a month or two of total escapism.

I packed my bags and I moved to Bangkok, Thailand. I spent a year there like completely isolated, no Wi-Fi.

My wife thinks I'm crazy.

I make sure I travel with my girlfriends at least twice a year because that's the time I rejuvenate and disconnect from myself.

I never shop - my wife takes care of all of that.

I think it's healthy to see a President be a family man.

Football has allowed me to see the world, and in Paz, I have a wife who is keen to see the world with me.

I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.

I travel on my own and try to - I float along to music.

It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.