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. ”

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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.”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

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. ”

Travel is glamourous only in retrospect.”

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

Not all those who wander are lost. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

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

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

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

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

A map is not the territory.”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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.”

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

We start going downhill when we stop taking risks.”

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

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

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

The journey, not the arrival, matters. ”

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

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

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

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