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.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots read more

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

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.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or read more

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce read more

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.

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.

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.