Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

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.

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.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more

Your true traveller 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.