Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from...

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we’re in port.

If we get 50 percent (of cars) off, travel times would be relatively the same. If we get 30 percent off, which is more realistic … travel times might increase by a third or double.

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who...

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

And you came to Finland to build a station?””No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.””That’s good,” the driver said. “Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Step and land, step and land. That’s all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

I don’t really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

O, great wise man,’ she said, ‘I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one’s...

Everywhere you travel to, be fully there.

When you travel, learn the history of the place.

I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.

He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his...

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.

I paid for two seats at the back of the car to give my thighs breathing space. The gangly man sitting next to me used the extra space to spread his legs as widely as...

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors,...

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If...

Ritzonia” was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury. “Ritzonia,” he wrote in 1909, “carries its inmates like a wishing...

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.”(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in...

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit…

Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn — can all act as...

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you’ve looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you...

I Travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine

[…] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.”As sanitary engineer?”No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

… to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

This visit has compacted the court’s quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town’s walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but...

And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, “go.

I read; I travel; I become

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise...

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)