Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l’insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

C’è sempre qualcosa di più, un po’ più in là… non finisce mai.

Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff of panic; we’re afraid the moment might end abruptly. But then there are...

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

The longer I travel and the more people I meet, the more apparent it becomes that certain people will come and go in your life in order to fill a need. Not as a messiah,...

When I travel, I get lovesick. Well, they call it chlamydia.

When you travel observe the beauty of the place.

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

It is a long distance that the seismic waves have to travel before they reach Mexico City, … and that reduces the amplitude of the waves. It is very much reduced at this distance.

You don’t even know where I’m going.””I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you’d fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

There is always some truth to fiction.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like...

From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

The world isn’t built with a ramp.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope...

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees....

Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal… Daily new, always strange, ever full of change, it is Nature’s wonder park. It is the most human and the...

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

With no other choices open to us, we’d turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours...

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we’ve even arrived back home.

Leaving home’s a cinch. It’s the staying, once you’ve found it, that takes courage.

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of...

what if the room gets cold?

What I’ve learned from my travels is that people are more alike than they are different. Yes, I may have a different home or lifestyle than a mom living in Shanghai, but deep down we...

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out...

Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I’m just a chick who’s scared of...

Then I’d go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel’s inspiration. What was different?

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

See it, learn it, do it ALL.

Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I guess whether we choose to travel as much as Marco Polo did or...

You’re not traveling if you already know everything.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

I’m about to cross a time zone, and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, maybe I can catch up to the love of my youth.

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.