Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Kamu juga selalu ngomong, you will never never know if you never never try. Kita nggak boleh menilai buku dari luarnya aja, kan?

Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

If man traveled as a centipede does, rather than with two self-interested steps at a time, more common ground would get covered.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

She said her heavy luggage had wheels, so I said, “Here, why don’t I carry that for you?” I was in stupid love.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.