For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
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.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.