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. ”

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

Not all those who wander are lost. ”

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

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

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ”

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.”

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. ”

Too often, I would hear men boast only of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ”

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."”

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

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

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ”

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

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. ”

We start going downhill when we stop taking risks.”

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

He who would travel happily must travel light.”

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

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

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. ”

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

Travel teaches toleration. ”

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

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

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

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

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

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

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

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

Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”

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

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

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

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. ”

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

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

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”