Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ”

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. ”

Is anything sadder than a train/That leaves when it's supposed to/That has only one voice/Only one route?”

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. ”

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ”

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. ”

A wise traveler never despises his own country. ”

People don't take trips -- trips take people. ”

Definition of Global Competence: "Having an open mind while actively seeking to understand cultural norms and expectations of others, and leveraging this gained knowledge to interact, communicate and work effectively in diverse environments."”

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ”

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

Not all those who wander are lost. ”

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. ”

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes stranger of people who should be friends. ”

He who would travel happily must travel light.”

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. ”

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. ”

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. ”

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ”

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ”

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ”

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. ”

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”

...I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. ”

You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. ”

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. ”

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

Before the traveler sees the ocean, he feels a stirring in his blood. ”

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ”

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

It is not down on any map; true places never are. ”

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ”

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. ”

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. ”

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

Life for two weeks on the mountaintops would show up many things about life during the other fifty weeks down below. ”

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ”

Don't tell me how educated you are; tell me how much you have traveled.”

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. ”

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”