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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

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

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

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

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

The journey, not the arrival, matters. ”

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

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

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.”

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. ”

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

He who would travel happily must travel light.”

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. ”

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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.”

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."”

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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