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. ”

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

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

…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. ”

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

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

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.”

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. ”

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

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

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

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Not all those who wander are lost. ”

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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."”

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

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. ”

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 who do not travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. ”

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

A map is not the territory.”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but 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. ”

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

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