You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.

Every traveler has a home of his own and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering

Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c'è nessun altro posto dove andare.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.

When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place.

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.