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

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

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.”

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

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

The journey, not the arrival, matters. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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.”

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

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

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

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. ”

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.”

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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.”

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

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

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."”

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

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

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

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