As a traveler, I’ve often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It’s not just...

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.