We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

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

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

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.”

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

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. ”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ”

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.”

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

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

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

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

A wise traveler never despises his own country. ”

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

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

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

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. ”

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

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

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."”

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

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

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

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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.”

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. ”

Travel is glamourous only in retrospect.”

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. ”

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.”

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

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