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

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

The journey, not the arrival, matters. ”

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

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ”

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

We start going downhill when we stop taking risks.”

Not all those who wander are lost. ”

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

A wise traveler never despises his own country. ”

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

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”

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

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

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

A map is not the territory.”

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

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.”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ”

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

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

When you're traveling, you are what you are… No yesterdays on the road.”

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

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."”

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

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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

…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. ”

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. ”

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

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

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ”

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in having new eyes. ”

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