How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, read more

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or read more

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself read more

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become read more

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is read more

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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

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

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.