You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.

When preparing to travel lay out all your clothes and all your money Then take half the clothes and twice the money

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.-Rick Ridgeway

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

I went to visit my grandma. I meant to stay for two days, but ended up staying two months. (So I overslept a little).

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.