88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before...

Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I’m not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking...

That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of the river, long and wet and cold, the aunt looked from her windows...

When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

There is no happiness for him who does not travel, Rohita!Thus we have heard. Living in the society of men, the best man becomes a sinner… therefore, wander!… The fortune of him who is sitting,...

He who would travel happily must travel light

The road never ends … only our vision does.

Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of...

I sat down and knitted for some time – my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

Durch die Eisenbahn wird Raum getötet, und es bleibt nur noch die Zeit übrig.

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in...

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of...

Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

There’s got to be some advantages. It’s our floor, we know it, we don’t have the travel. But playing West Side is a war. They’re well-coached and they’re talented. What little adversity we have is...

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

The problem is, these days you have to listen to too many parts of your body. Sometimes I go with my gut feeling, some say go with what your heart says – it’s only a...

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Define your path and travel on this path.

I would consider that to be an advantage — in that we don’t have to travel, and the rink is five minutes from our district. We expect a very high turnout from our community, and...

Na jaren van zwoegen merken we dat we geen reis maken, maar dat de reis on maakt. Reisleiders, dienstregelingen, reserveringen, star en onvermijdelijk, doen hun uiterste best om de persoonlijkheid van de reis te slopen.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Every Inch of the Way is a great page turning adventure which is as close as you can get, without actually saddling up and pedalling yourself into the unknown. It takes real magic to turn...

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These...

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a...

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

I hate traveling with amateurs.