The journey, not the arrival, matters. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by.”

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

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

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.”

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only who is foreign.”

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

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

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”

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

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

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

Travel is glamourous only in retrospect.”

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

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. ”

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. ”

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. ”

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it -- basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. ”

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ”

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ”

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

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. ”

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

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

...the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. ”

The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. ”

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ”

Nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes common ground, and a common bond, and we cease to be alone. ”

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. ”

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

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

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ”

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."”

Not all those who wander are lost. ”

A wise traveler never despises his own country. ”

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

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. ”